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Webs.comWeird ScienceMagushttp://www.conjurework.com/apps/blog/show/44428522
<p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><font size="5"><b>I agree with this statement:</b></font></p><p><br/></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5"><i>If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs -- rethinking the world isn't an option. -PZ Myers, biology professor (b. 9 Mar 1957)</i></font></p><p><br/></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">People might wonder why I would agree with this quote, being that I am an occultist. To me, Spirits and magick are perfectly in tune with the natural world. They are there, we just don't see them. 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<p><img src="http://www.conjurework.com/inner-technology.jpg"/><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><font size="5">Anyone who has done any serious magickal work knows that if you work on the astral, then every once in a while, you&#8217;re going to attract a certain amount of psychic sludge. </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">The reasons for this are several. For one, you <i>light up on the astral plane</i>. Doing white light work? Intense meditation? Doing pentagram rituals or casting circles? 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<p><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://www.conjurework.com/20150109_9520.jpg"/><br/></p><p><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; "><b><font size="6">A few cursory thoughts on the </font></b></p><p style="text-align: center; "><b><font size="6">art and science of divination</font></b></p><p>&#160;</p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">It&#8217;s a funny business, life. Sometimes we have all the wrong ideas about something and it turns out just fine, anyway. Sometimes those wrong ideas lead us to disaster. </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">Other times we did everything right and it still turned out badly, no fault of our own. Luckily, we can sometimes do everything right and have it actually turn out right, as well. </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">We use divination (tools like tarot, astrology, pendulum, dice, bones, geomancy, augury, dreams and runes) to sort out what a situation looks like in advance. We call it a reading. 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<p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><font size="5">If anyone knows that I am a coach and yet you can't wrap your head around what that is, I challenge you to watch this entire video by one of the greats, Les Brown. At one point in the video, he explains it very well.</font></p><p><br/></p><p>&#160;</p><p style="text-align: center; "><img height="350" width="425" class="fw_media_youtube fw-parse" alt="YouTube-ZKV0NDIJlto" src="http://thumbs.webs.com/Platform/mediaPreview.jsp?type=YouTube&amp;id=ZKV0NDIJlto"/><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><font size="5">If you are thinking "That's great but what can YOU help me with? You're not where you want to be yet. You're not where I want to be yet". My response is that you're right. But don't quit reading right there. Consider this. I just went through the roughest year of my entire life. The skills that I have learned as a coach and as a magician enabled me to hold on to my vision and keep moving, even when things looked like there was no hope. I'm still getting caught up. I still have some debts to pay off, I won't lie. Other people have fought their way back from much worse places. Every success story starts with a horror story, one in which the protagonist simply will not quit. That, I can do! I don't quit. No special strength of character... I'm just too damned hardheaded to quit ;-) Because I am that way, I can find that part that is inside you and help you draw it out, if you are willing to go through the steps, even when it feels hopeless.</font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><br/></p><p><font size="5">One of the things that I learned was "The fastest way to feel better is to help someone else". So, I did a bunch of free, intro sessions with new people and it worked. I got such positive feedback that it gave me a sense of purpose. It reminded me that I have something to offer. I was blown away by the compliments and thank you's that people offered up. To be fair, I asked for referrals... IF AND ONLY IF... they found it to be useful. I'd say that 9 out of every 10 people I worked with wrote referrals for me in various places and they were FAR more kind and generous than I expected.</font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><br/></p><p><font size="5">I got some paying patrons out of it, too; several people didn't want to stop after 1 session! But the most important thing was that it helped me hold on to my own purpose, my self-esteem. A coach reminds you that life will kick you at times but you're not done. He or she will reach in and extract that fighting spirit from within you, the thing that will bring your power to the surface.</font></p><p><br/></p><p><font size="5">My niche is that I am a Conjure Coach. That's a term that I coined myself. While I work with all kinds of people, my specialty is helping people who are into magick to get the best out of themselves. Doesn't matter if you are into OTO, Wicca, Santeria, Voodoo, Golden Dawn, Druid, LHP, Hoodoo or whatever. I don't tell you what to do. I help you to get yourself to do what you already know you want and need to do.</font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><br/></p><p><font size="5">Want you're own coach? See the Services page (the button bar above)</font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><br/></p><p><font size="5">Can't afford me? Tell me so. Make me an offer on what you COULD afford. I will probably agree to work with you for one or two months on a sliding scale, with the understanding that we will get you earning more, so that you can afford my full fee, which is already more than reasonable. </font></p><p><br/></p><p><font size="5">I believe that if you help someone else, it WILL come back. I'm willing to help but you have to exercise enough faith to ask.</font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><br/></p>Wed, 18 May 2016 20:35:00 +0000http://www.conjurework.com/apps/blog/show/43988250Medicine Bottle SpellsMagushttp://www.conjurework.com/apps/blog/show/43958443
<p><br/></p><p><font size="7">A</font><font size="5"> traditional type of Hoodoo spell is the medicine bottle. </font></p><p><br/></p><p><font size="5">&#160; &#160;You can find classic, antique medicine bottles online in the usual places, like Etsy, Amazon, Ebay, etc. However, it isn&#8217;t necessary to spend $5-20 on a really cool bottle. You can, if you want to but you don&#8217;t need anything special for this.</font></p><p><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://www.conjurework.com/medicine_bottle_Kevin_Trent_Boswell.jpg"/><br/></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">&#160; &#160;The basic, plastic bottles that you get from any Rite Aid, Walgreen&#8217;s or any other pharmacy will do fine. 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<p><font size="5">Most people's lives are a direct reflection of the expectations of their peer group. &#8211;Tony Robbins </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">I've done dozens of introductory Conjure Coaching sessions with people lately and at least 8 out of every 10 have either said they found it really useful or they have even made a public testimonial or else they referred a friend to me. This is really great and I'm thankful to all of you, it's been a very powerful experience to get to know each person. </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">While everyone has said how great it is, the people who are getting the absolute best results are the ones who work with me regularly. They are the ones who are making the most remarkable shifts in their lives. Why? Accountability is the key. </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">It's really easy to have a single session, get really excited about some breakthrough realizations, see what's in the astrology, be fascinated by the answers that the tarot cards turn up, learn an emotional skill or two and then... nothing. The hypnosis of life settles in. We fall back into the trance of doing... what we always did before. </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">You won't put out nearly as much on your own as you will if you know that somebody is watching. When you know that you have to show up again in a week or even in a month, there's a certain amount of "positive pressure". That pressure that makes us "get shit done". </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">If you surround yourself with people who are not trying to be at their best, then they (although they love you and they really mean well) will be invested in keeping you from being at your very best, because they are afraid of losing you, afraid of not being enough themselves... and your new success only reinforces that realization. </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">Get around people who are demanding more from themselves than anybody is demanding of them. Get around those who are playing at a higher level. It doesn't matter where you are starting from. Just start. </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">Every successful company has a board of advisors, as do presidents, kings, people in entertainment or any other area of life. We tend to look at it as "They are successful. They can afford to have counsel". It's the other way around. Because they have counsel, they can afford it. You only get what you insist on. Insist on more. Treat your life like it is a nation of people. No entire population would ever submit to the rule of a king who had no advisors. Yet, we're taught to do it all by ourselves with no outside counsel. Bad idea. </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">Build your own "team". Get yourself someone who can give you valuable outside perspective, skills, strategies and insights, someone who won't just tell you what you want to hear. Friends will tell you "it ain't so bad", "you're fine", "you don't need to change anything", "you're perfect just the way you are". That will *feel* reassuring... for about five minutes. </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">Then, you'll remember the pain, the anxiety, the bitterness about that situation you've been feeling trapped in. You know that it MUST change. You're probably not going to do it alone. Don't get me wrong, you *totally* have the ability to do it and to do it all by yourself. But ask yourself this question: "How long to I want to take to figure this out?". Do you want to do it the hard way? All by yourself? I didn't think so. Isolation and frustration is a poor strategy. </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">Each of us will struggle with a problem and act out in less than healthy ways, until we've "had enough". When you hit that point, you're almost ready to change. Almost? Yep. The next step is swallowing your pride and admitting that you've wasted a ton of time, energy, money and heartache, attacking the problem in exactly the wrong way. We all screw up. We all screw up really bad at some point. Learn from it. Move forward. You are not your action. You are a Spirit, capable of action. </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">When you have that attitude of facing each and every mistake, however painful, embarrassing, expensive or humiliating... looking them in the eye and announcing your imminent victory, then you are ready. It takes moxy to "call the shot", because there is a chance of failure. But if you don't call the shot, then you're less likely to even take the shot. If you don't even take the shot, then there is a 100% guarantee of failure. </font></p><p>&#160;</p><p><font size="5">www.conjurework.com/services </font></p>Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:00:00 +0000http://www.conjurework.com/apps/blog/show/43872548